Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...displaying amazingly little of the clear logic for which his race has been historically noted in his present efforts to smooth over the annoying little unpleasantness in East Africa. Piously dressed in his Sunday-go-to-Geneva best, Mr. Laval suggests that if only Great Britain will recall her fleet from the Mediterranean and leave her children, Gilbraltar, Malta, and Egypt, to be watched over by the eye of heaven alone, Mussolini will stop cringing from fear and beat his swords into plowshares for use on the Roman Campagna...
Typical of the tongue-in-check attitude Laval has maintained all through the present crisis, this new suggestion takes no account of the fact that Mussolini's appetite for southern dainties must be appeased and that the removal of the British fleet would make the Mediterranean "Mare Nostrum" indeed...
Also last week, Imperial Airways ordered the first of a new fleet of 18-ton flying boats from England's Short Brothers Ltd. Four-motored, high-winged monoplanes with a speed of about 200 m.p.h., the new transports are expected to make actual by 1937 the program announced in Parliament last December of carrying all Great Britain's first-class mail to & from India, Africa, Singapore and Australia...
...airplane returning from London to Portland with Admiral Sir Roger Roland Backhouse, Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Fleet (see p. 4) plumped down on Portland Harbor, capsized in the midst of the fleet. A boat from the Nelson picked Sir Roger out of the water...
...rode in a command performance for Queen Victoria. After another turn at newspaper work, which landed him at the managing editor's desk of an old Detroit daily, his eyes failed him, and he sadly set up a shipping office in Duluth. Today he owns the Tomlinson fleet of 15 Great Lakes steamers, two farms where he raises horses, 9,000 volumes of Americana, is board chairman of American Shipbuilding, a director of Goodyear Tire & Rubber and vice president of the Cleveland Baseball Club (Indians). He also sits on the boards of 16 Van Sweringen railroads, though...